Have loved your work since the start! I return to Proper Gay Like and Priest Hole, but there's so many brilliant things. Looking forward to more!
You were also very kind to me when I first started out as a writer, and I still appreciate that now. Although I don't write full-time, I've grown a lot in confidence and your early encouragement helped a lot with that.
Huw, for what it’s worth I listen to bad gays religiously and really love these articles too. I too know the pain of putting so much into something and getting no response - but just know you are seen and appreciated!
Hahahaha! That’s Adrian Chiles link is impossibly good 😂.
I have not been a paid subscriber here but have been on Bad Gays since it was £1 and I def consider it something I can do to support something I like rather than paying for something in return.
One that comes to mind immediately — I’m always sending people towards your “John Humphrys' Brain” from (… I just checked, somehow, oh man, what is time) 6 years ago. Your writing and thinking is always phenomenal, and I am hugely grateful for everything you share. Thank you.
I regularly return to "Her Majesty's Loyal Pleasuredrome". The essay, and especially the last paragraph, reminds me how loving casual sex can be. When else would I invite a stranger to sleep in my bed?
Thank you for this and all the other pieces! I'm looking forward to any others the future holds, hopefully with less hustle involved in their writing.
I was confused for a moment, as I don’t pay anything on Substack. Also my own writing is free online. I charge modestly for zines. And universities pay huge sums for journal access (another story of exploitation).
The reasoning to make everything free but to allow for micro-patronage is compelling.
Have loved your work since the start! I return to Proper Gay Like and Priest Hole, but there's so many brilliant things. Looking forward to more!
You were also very kind to me when I first started out as a writer, and I still appreciate that now. Although I don't write full-time, I've grown a lot in confidence and your early encouragement helped a lot with that.
Huw, for what it’s worth I listen to bad gays religiously and really love these articles too. I too know the pain of putting so much into something and getting no response - but just know you are seen and appreciated!
Hahahaha! That’s Adrian Chiles link is impossibly good 😂.
I have not been a paid subscriber here but have been on Bad Gays since it was £1 and I def consider it something I can do to support something I like rather than paying for something in return.
One that comes to mind immediately — I’m always sending people towards your “John Humphrys' Brain” from (… I just checked, somehow, oh man, what is time) 6 years ago. Your writing and thinking is always phenomenal, and I am hugely grateful for everything you share. Thank you.
I regularly return to "Her Majesty's Loyal Pleasuredrome". The essay, and especially the last paragraph, reminds me how loving casual sex can be. When else would I invite a stranger to sleep in my bed?
Thank you for this and all the other pieces! I'm looking forward to any others the future holds, hopefully with less hustle involved in their writing.
“I just don’t have the hustle in me.” Same, same, same. The longer I do this job, the less visible I want to be.
all your essays remind me how much i love your thinking/writing. i never feel like you 'owe' me work, it's always a treat to receive.
when i get back to having a regular income i would be delighted to be a no-expectations micro-patron <3
Hi Huw!
I'm a huge fan of "Bad Gays" and a Patreon supporter.
I particularly liked the piece you wrote on "Heartstopper".
I wonder if you would be interested in covering Peter Watson for a future episode of "Bad Gays"?
Here's something I wrote about "Queer Saint" the biography by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield
https://kabiraltaf.substack.com/p/review-queer-saint-the-cultured-life
I was confused for a moment, as I don’t pay anything on Substack. Also my own writing is free online. I charge modestly for zines. And universities pay huge sums for journal access (another story of exploitation).
The reasoning to make everything free but to allow for micro-patronage is compelling.
You’ve perfectly encapsulated the relationship I’m trying to build with Substack. Thank you!
Since you're one of a handful of writers whose stuff I'll read automatically, this is fine by me.*
* This has been the case for almost 15 years and would still be the case if you were distributing your prose via an owl network.